Tuesday, November 28, 2006

Hi everyone. I'm in IslaMureres, Mexico (near Cancun) right now where I shot a beautiful wedding on Saturday. I promise to write more when I get home later this week, but here's one shot of Stacey and Eric in the mean time.

Tuesday, November 21, 2006

I had really been looking forward to Sharon and Joe's wedding since their engagement session last Fall. And Saturday turned out even better than I had hoped for. We had beautiful weather, great light and a really energetic reception. And Joe was always looking for an excuse to kiss his beautiful wife.

Wednesday, November 15, 2006

Set your VCRs and grab some popcorn because we're going to be on television. Sandy and Mike's wedding last weekend at the Loretto Chapel and Inn was filmed by the Style Network. The show is set to air sometime next year, so I'll probably be asking one of you to record it for me since I don't have cable. But it promises to be a good time because the wedding day had everything: a beautiful bride, lots of tears, tons of laughter, an insane amount of dancing and a groomsmen smoking a cigar outside wearing only a towel and a wristwatch. I love weddings.

Friday, November 10, 2006

The best part of my job is getting to know each couple I photograph. Some couples I don't meet until their actual wedding day, and others, like Ronny and Andy, I get to know very well long before their big day arrives.But I almost didn't get to know Ronny and Andy at all because I was already booked for their original wedding day. So Ronny convinced Andy they should change their wedding date just so I could be there. Besides being a little nerve wracking, it's also extremely humbling and flattering to have someone put that much faith in what you do. Their wedding went perfectly and the reception was one of the best parties I have been to this year, especially with Andy's good friend Vinny helping dominate the dance floor. I hope the photographs live up to their expectations. But if not, I'm sure Ronny will make good on her threat to "Drop kick me like the Spice girl she is." And then she'll probably try to steal my cat. Again.

Wednesday, November 08, 2006

Yesterday I had a portrait session with the investment firm Housatonic Partners. The people at Housatonic wanted shots that went a little beyond the normal studio portrait, which worked great for me because I've never been a fan of big studio lights and fake backgrounds. My friend Vlad came along for the ride, and also Intel's Andy Grove (Time Magazine's Man of the Year in 1997) spoke at the conference. Really interesting day.

Friday, November 03, 2006

I had a portrait session yesterday with four City of Santa Fe police officers for their department's recruitment campaign. The photos are slated to be placed on the sides of the city's buses, which will be really cool to see while driving around town on my way to get the usual breakfast burrito and coffee in the morning.

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About Ben

Along with his wife Erin, Ben Chrisman is the co-owner of Chrisman Studios, a collective of five destination wedding photographers based in Charleston, South Carolina. Ben studied photojournalism, and worked at newspapers for several years in his home state of New Mexico before starting his own wedding photography business in 2005. Since then, Ben has photographed weddings all over the world, including Mongolia, Venezuela, Bhutan, Israel, throughout Europe, the Caribbean and the United States. He has also won some of the most celebrated awards in the industry, including American Photo magazine’s “Top Ten Wedding Photographers, Rangefinder Magazine’s “Top 10 Most Sought Out Wedding Photographers in the World”, the WPJA’s “Photographer of the Year”, Junebug Wedding’s “Best of the Best” five years in a row, and Fearless Photographers’ “Top 10 Photographers of the Year”. Ben is also on staff with the highly-respected Foundation Workshops, and speaks at photography conferences internationally with Erin throughout the year. He lives in downtown Charleston with Erin and their daughter Roxy.